Nagoya and Gifu JALT Archive

This is an archive of all of the past events of Nagoya and Gifu Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching on ELT Calendar.

December 7th (Saturday) 2024
Round Table Meeting and Bonenkai
Speaker: All Attendees
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

October 20th (Sunday) 2024
2024 October Grand Forum
Speaker: Shoko Sasayama (Waseda Univ.) Marcos Benevides (J. F. Oberlin Univ.)
Location: Toyohashi City, Aichi Prefecture

July 13th (Saturday) 2024
The Crucial Role of Habits for Language Learning
Speaker: Clair Taylor
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

July 14th (Saturday) 2018
Nagoya JALT/JALT Speech, Drama, and Debate SIG Process Drama Workshop and Summer Travelling Conference 2018 (Nanzan University)
Speaker: Eucharia Donnery (Shonan Institute of Technology)
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

October 21st (Saturday) 2017
DIY NeuroELT: Seven keys for making your textbook more brain-friendly
Speaker: Marc Helgesen
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

July 23rd (Sunday) 2017
Toward A Focus-on-Form Approach to EFL Teaching in Japan
Speaker: Shinichi Izumi (Sophia University)
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

June 18th (Sunday) 2017
Promoting Active Listening in the EFL/ESL Classroom
Speaker: Chris Donaldson
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

May 13th (Saturday) 2017
Professional development: Qualitative research, data analysis methodology, and introduction to QSR Nvivo
Speaker: Andrew Blyth (Nanzan University), Yuzo Kimura (University of Toyama)
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

April 16th (Sunday) 2017
"Sometimes, I think they are a kind of God." Metaphors for teachers, learners and language learning
Speaker: Darren Elliott (Nanzan University)
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

March 26th (Sunday) 2017
JALT Nagoya and SIG Collaboration
Speaker: Maria Gabriela Schmidt, Morten Hunke, Mathew Porter
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

July 6th (Saturday) 2013
FAB4: International NeuroELT Conference
Speaker: Marc Helgesen, Robert S. Murphy, others
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

February 17th (Sunday) 2013
Music and EFL: Play It, Sing It, Learn It
Speaker: Jim Smiley and Brian Cullen
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

January 20th (Sunday) 2013
(1) The voices of academic publishing; (2) Narrative inquiry in the classroom
Speaker: Theron Muller, University of Toyama
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

December 9th (Sunday) 2012
Vocabulary: Meaning, Form, Pronunciation, and Beyond
Speaker: Brad Deacon
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

November 18th (Sunday) 2012
Developing a Motivational Classroom Environment
Speaker: Sean Paydon
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

September 23rd (Sunday) 2012
ELT 2.0
Speaker: Michael Stout, Toyo Gakuen University, Tokyo
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

March 11th (Sunday) 2012
Active Learning with Picture Cards and Homework
Speaker: Peter Warner
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

January 22nd (Sunday) 2012
Using Authentic Video for Language Learning
Speaker: Chris Stillwell
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

February 20th (Sunday) 2011
Stories that don't begin with 'once upon a time'
Speaker: Bob Jones
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

January 23rd (Sunday) 2011
Teaching Speaking
Speaker: Tim Stewart
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

December 5th (Sunday) 2010
It's Christmas!
Speaker: Linda Donan
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

September 26th (Sunday) 2010
Active Learners
Speaker: Jon Catanzariti
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

July 18th (Sunday) 2010
Materials Production and Evaluation for Young Learners: Six Principles
Speaker: Catherine Littlehale Oki
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

June 20th (Sunday) 2010
Designing and Implementing Discipline-Specific Projects to Motivate Non-English Undergraduates
Speaker: Paul Moritoshi
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

May 16th (Sunday) 2010
The Communicative Classroom: What can be taught?
Speaker: Alastair Graham-Marr
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

April 18th (Sunday) 2010
Practical Look at Research on Non-Native Speaker -- Non-Native Speaker Negotiation in Oral Communication Classes
Speaker: Troy Miller
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

March 14th (Sunday) 2010
Music and Movement for Toddlers
Speaker: Ken King
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

January 24th (Sunday) 2010
Stirring the Senses: Reflective Portfolios and Online Assessments
Speaker: Suzanne Bonn Miyake, Nanzan University
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

December 6th (Sunday) 2009
Experience the power of Cross-curricular lessons for young learners
Speaker: Lesley Ito
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

December 7th (Sunday) 2008
My Share
Speaker: Various speakers
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

June 14th (Saturday) 2008
1st Chubu Region JACET / JALT Joint Conference 2008: Toward a Synergistic Collaboration in English Education
Speaker: Call for papers due February 29, 2008
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

May 18th (Sunday) 2008
Twelve Steps to Teaching Verbs and Verb Tenses
Speaker: Peter Warner
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

February 17th (Sunday) 2008
A Treasure Chest of Songs, Chants and Games!
Speaker: Kim Horne
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

January 20th (Sunday) 2008
STEP EIKEN: An inside look at Japan's national English test
Speaker: Michael Todd Fouts
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

December 9th (Sunday) 2007
My Share
Speaker: Various
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

October 21st (Sunday) 2007
TPR-S Storybook Fun
Speaker: Melinda Kawahara
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

September 30th (Sunday) 2007
Issues in the Teaching of Academic Writing
Speaker: David Kluge
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

August 26th (Sunday) 2007
Linguistic Phonics and Begining Reading Instruction
Speaker: Peter Warner
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

July 8th (Sunday) 2007
Curriculum Innovation: Coordinating and Managing Change
Speaker: Douglas Jarrell, James Venema, and Kathi Emori, Nagoya Women's University
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

May 20th (Sunday) 2007
Increase Students' Interest and Motivation by Drawing More
Speaker: Ray Goering
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

March 18th (Sunday) 2007
What's Next? Choice in The Children's Classroom
Speaker: Chris Hunt
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

February 18th (Sunday) 2007
Tools of the Trade: Utilizing the Video-iPod to Deliver Engaging EFL Content
Speaker: Bill Pellowe
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

January 21st (Sunday) 2007
Drama Activities for the EFL Classroom
Speaker: Miho Moody
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

December 10th (Sunday) 2006
My Share
Speaker: Various presenters - bring an idea to share!
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

May 22nd (Sunday) 2005
(1) Writing from Within Intro
(2) Brain studies and teaching children
Speaker: Curtis Kelly
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

April 24th (Sunday) 2005
Using dance movement and drama to increase bodily awareness
Speaker: Evangelos Diavolitsis
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

February 20th (Sunday) 2005
Introducing the Future
Speaker: Mark O'Neil, Cambridge University Press
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

February 20th (Sunday) 2005
Introducing the Future
Speaker: Mark O'Neil, Cambridge University Press
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

September 26th (Sunday) 2004
Planning Your Lessons the Pie-Chart Way
Speaker: Lesley Ito
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

August 29th (Sunday) 2004
How to use Picture Books and Incorporate Phonics
Speaker: Tibor Lucskai
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

July 11th (Sunday) 2004
Teaching to the Extremes: Senior Citizens and Babies
Speaker: Linda Donan
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

June 20th (Sunday) 2004
Queer Theory Applications in the Language Classroom
Speaker: Roibeard O'Mochain
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

May 23rd (Sunday) 2004
EFL for Children and Teenagers
Speaker: Peter Warner
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

March 21st (Sunday) 2004
Supporting Students who are Survivors
Speaker: Stephan L'Heureux
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

February 15th (Sunday) 2004
New Directions in Teaching English in Japan's EFL Context--from the Results of Monkasho's Action Plans
Speaker: Kensaku Yoshida
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

December 14th (Sunday) 2003
My Share: Share Your Ideas
Speaker: "open mike"
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

November 16th (Sunday) 2003
Language Awareness Activities for the Classroom
Speaker: Deryn P. Verity
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

October 26th (Sunday) 2003
The General Union, Teacher's Rights, & the Labor Standard Law
Speaker: Representatives of the General Union
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

September 15th (Monday) 2003
Respect for the Aged Day (Keirou-no-hi)
Cooperative Structures and Language Learning
Speaker: Spencer Kagan
Location: Aichi City, Aichi Prefecture

July 27th (Sunday) 2003
NLP: Keys To Success & The Users Manual For The Brain (day 2 of 2)
Speaker: Richard Bolstad, NLP Trainer
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

July 26th (Saturday) 2003
NLP: Keys To Success & The Users Manual For The Brain (day 1 of 2)
Speaker: Richard Bolstad, NLP Trainer
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

July 13th (Sunday) 2003
Motivation Research
Speaker: Terry Wacholz
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

June 22nd (Sunday) 2003
About the TOEIC Test
Speaker: George Van Horn
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

May 18th (Sunday) 2003
26 Basic Things any EFL Teacher of Children Should Know
Speaker: Setsuko Toyama
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

April 20th (Sunday) 2003
Visual Aids: Tools for Classroom Activities
Speaker: Sharon Abe
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

March 16th (Sunday) 2003
Blank Syllabus and Flashcards Games
Speaker: Linda Donan
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

February 16th (Sunday) 2003
Using the Web with Your ESL Students
Speaker: Charles Kelly
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

January 26th (Sunday) 2003
Maps for Transformation
Speaker: David Pomatti
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

December 8th (Sunday) 2002
Annual My Share / Year End Party
Speaker: All participants are welcome to share classroom ideas
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

November 17th (Sunday) 2002
Vocabulary and Grammar as Foundations for Reading Instruction
Speaker: Dr. William Grabe, Northern Arizona University
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

October 20th (Sunday) 2002
Word by Word Primary Series
Speaker: Ali Taylor, Longman ELT
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

September 22nd (Sunday) 2002
Re-igniting the Motivational Fire: Tapping Hidden Potential via the Enhancement of Value Perception in ELT
Speaker: Paul Doyon
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

July 14th (Sunday) 2002
How to Teach English to Children More Actively
Speaker: Nagano Yoshimi and Nakatsuka Junko
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

June 23rd (Sunday) 2002
How to Help Weaker Students Improve
Speaker: Parrill Stribling
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

June 23rd (Sunday) 2002
Language Classroom Testing Basics: the A, B, Cs
Speaker: Elizabeth Hiser
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

May 26th (Sunday) 2002
Tunes and Tales in the Classroom (Using stories and songs in language lessons)
Speaker: Brad Deacon and Brian Cullen
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

April 21st (Sunday) 2002
Teaching Reading Skills. What, and How?
Speaker: Rob Waring
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

February 17th (Sunday) 2002
Songs in the EFL Classroom - Beyond Cloze
Speaker: Robert Gee and Michael Furmanovsky
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

January 20th (Sunday) 2002
Developing English Skills in Young Learners
Speaker: Michelle Nagashima
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

January 20th (Sunday) 2002
Innervoice, Time Planning and Practice
Speaker: Marc Helgesen
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

December 9th (Sunday) 2001
My Share
Speaker: Anyone who has something they'd like to share!
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

November 19th (Monday) 2001
Teaching Speaking: renewing our perspectives through discourse
Speaker: Anne Burns, Macquarie University in Australia
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

October 21st (Sunday) 2001
A Closer Look at Folktales
Speaker: Robert Croker (Nanzan University) and Bev Curran (Shukutoku University)
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

September 23rd (Sunday) 2001
Materials and Activities for Elementary, Junior High and High School Classrooms
Speaker: Robert Habbick, Oxford University Press Nagoya
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

July 8th (Sunday) 2001
Mini-conference on Lifelong Learning: From K3 and Beyond
Speaker: Yamaoka Tamiko, Yuri Kuno, Tom Merner, Michelle Nagashima, Elin Melchior and others
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

June 24th (Sunday) 2001
Star Taxi
Speaker: Marc Sheffner and Theo Steckler, DramaWorks
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

May 27th (Sunday) 2001
The Three Keys to Unlocking Culture: Perception, Perception, Perception!
Speaker: Ray Donahue, Nagoya Gakuin University
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

April 22nd (Sunday) 2001
Kids / Dictionaries
Speaker: Takeuchi Eiko and Brendan Delahunty
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

February 25th (Sunday) 2001
Movies and NLP in the English Classroom
Speaker: Adachi Momoko, Nanzan University
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

January 28th (Sunday) 2001
Course Development
Speaker: Michael Hunter, Elin Melchior, and Gillian Sano-Giles, Komaki English Teaching Center/Ohio University
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture